Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-05-20
DISRUPTED REvoLUrIosIsrs.
The Famous Clan-Na- Gael Society Goes
to Pieces Badly,

to Pieces Badly.
New YORK, May 19th.-The Mail and
Express says: The Clan Na-Gael Society.
which numbers among its members two
United States Senators, the Governors of
several States, Mayors of q dozen cities, as
well as Congressman of national import
ance, is completely disrupted, and the fight
among classes has become SO bitter that
certain members have been openly charged
with selling the secrets of the order to the
British Government, which it is alleged
has been the means of supplying the in
formation published by the London Times.
The Clan-Na-Gael Society was formed
after the abortive revolution in Ireland
during the spring of 1867. Camps were
organized in every city i'll the Union and
every town of consequence. BROOKLYN has
nearly dozen camps, with a membership
OF $500. New York has more, Philadel-
phia follows next, then Chicago st. Louis,
Pittsburg, Troy, Buffalo, Albany, San
Francisco, New Haven, Boston, Lowell,
Providence, Scranton and Hoosaic Falls.
PowDERLY WAS ONE OF THE CHIEFS
When Mayor of Scranton. The Societv's
oath-bound object was to free Ireland. To-
day the Society is not only split in halves.
but one of the members, said to reside in
New Haven, IS charged with appropriating
$4,000 from the revolutionary fund, and
other members of the Supreme Executive
Board are charged with living on the assess
ments drawn from members. Open war
fare has been instituted between the leaders,
and the Camps are divided almost equally.
the factions seeding taking with them the
name Clan-Na-Gael," and the Camps re-
naming in the original Order adopting
another name. Patrick Egan, of Lincoln,
Neb.; Alexander Sullivan, of Chicago ;
Colonel Mitchell Boleand, of Louisville,
and Reynolds, of New Haven, form the
leaders of the original faction, while John
Dewey, William b. Wallace and LAWYER
Gotf, OF Broadway, are the leading men in
the new Clan-NaG Gael.
THE CAUSE OF THE SPLIT,
Which occurred several months age, was
directly brought about by an order from
the Executive to the various Camps de-
mandlng that 80 per cent of all monevs in
the treasury of each Camp be immediately
forwarded to the unknown head of the or
garization. For years there had been dis
content among the Camps Members
wondered where the money was going to,
which they contributed. According to the
constitution they are moi allowed TO ask.
members were only supposed 10 know their
local officers. Before the demand came for
the 90 per cent. from the sixty-ive camps
in this country, Alexander Sullivan and
Patti lex Egan secured the expulsion Of John
Dewey and his followers. Open charges
OF robbery were then made. 1t was
alleged that British spies had gained a
foothold in the Order. The result was that
a majority of the Camps refused to turn
over 80 per cent Of their receipts to the
Treasurer. Some of these Camps were
promptly expelled, and others did not wait
for expulsion, bat, disregarding their oaths,
Withdrew from the Order. The majority
against the assessment was enormous, and
Withdrew from the organization taking
with them the name Clan Ma. Gael
The new Clan-Na-Gael proposes to drive
Alexander Sullivan, Patrick Egan and
their followers out of all Irish Societies.
They viii be placed upon the black list
They refuse to give the old Camps any ac-
count of moneys expended, claiming it a
secret matter. Charges of fraud have been
made affecting in one case man holding
public office in Brooklyn, and another of
great prominence in Boston. Rev. Dr..
Belts, leading Protestant clergyman of
the West, until recently located at St.
Louis, is the leader of one of the factions.
lie is bitterly denounced by some persons
in New York. who claim he knows where
the London Times got its information.